corps
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From French corps d’armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
Pronunciation
[edit]- singular
- (horse–hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA(key): /kɔː/
- (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA(key): /koɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ]
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
- plural
- (horse–hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /kɔːz/
- (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA(key): /koɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz]
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
- Homophones: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
[edit]corps (plural corps)
- (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
- diplomatic corps
- White House press corps
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]corps (plural corps)
- A corps de ballet.
- 1981 December 12, David Foushee, “Pushing the Edges”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 6:
- The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians […] even the largest of them cavorted about en pointe with wonderful ease, and the corps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies.
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
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Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]corps (plural corpses)
- Obsolete spelling of corpse.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk […], London: […] Hen. Brome […], page 16:
- How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 597–601:
- To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, / Alike is Hell, or Paradiſe, or Heaven, / There beſt, where moſt with ravin I may meet; / Which here, though plenteous, all too little ſeems / To ſtuff this Maw, this vaſt unhide-bound Corps.
- 1788, [Vicesimus Knox], Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, volume II, Dublin: […] Messrs. Chamberlaine, Moncrieffe, White, […], page 70:
- Did I poſſeſs the power of reſuſcitation, I would reanimate thy lifeleſs corps, and cheriſh thee in the warmeſt corner of thy favourite dwelling-place.
- 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817: […], London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 92:
- The women looked like dead bodies; and never did I see such a sepulchral appearance as their dress and colourless faces exhibited, they were all dressed alike in drab gowns, white neck kerchiefs, and a cap fitting close over their ears, and fastened under the chin, the same sort as are placed on a corps.
Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]corps m (plural corps)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)
- (chiefly Netherlands) student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
- Superseded spelling of korps.
Usage notes
[edit]Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.
Synonyms
[edit]- studentencorps
- natie (historical)
- studentenclub
- studentenvereniging
Derived terms
[edit]French
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”). The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corps m (plural corps)
- body
- (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
- (military) corps
Derived terms
[edit]- à bras-le-corps
- à corps perdu
- à son corps défendant
- avoir le diable au corps
- chevillé au corps
- corporation
- corporel
- corps calleux
- corps caverneux
- corps céleste
- corps composé
- corps consulaire
- corps de ballet
- corps de garde
- corps de métier
- corps diplomatique
- corps du délit
- corps et âme
- corps et biens
- corps étranger
- corps simple
- corser
- corset
- donner corps
- esprit de corps
- faire corps
- garde du corps
- incorporer
- linge de corps
- maillot de corps
- pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps
- prendre corps
- tenir au corps
- tricot de corps
- vendre son corps
Descendants
[edit]- Karipúna Creole French: kó
- → Danish: korps
- → English: corps
- → Dutch: corps, korps
- → German: Korps
- → Norwegian Bokmål: korps
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
- → Romanian: corp (in part)
- → Swedish: kår
Further reading
[edit]- “corps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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